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Universal 750:
- Original
- The Universal of Multiple N/L-Switching:
In cases of conditioned multiple N/L-switching, the nominal strategy is limited to the Present Tense.
- Standardized
- IF there is conditioned multiple nominal/locational switching, THEN the nominal strategy is limited to the Present Tense.
- Keywords
- multiple-switching, encoding, present tense
- Domain
- inflection, syntax
- Type
- no genuine implication; rather: provided that
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- sample of 410 languages in Stassen 1997
- Source
- Stassen 1997: 8.2
- Counterexamples
Multiple switching occurs in cases in which the switch affects more than one predicate category at the same time, under the same conditions.